I used to wear an iPod Nano on my wrist. It stored songs, it had an FM radio and it told me the time. Years later, the Apple Watch is finally living up to the promise of being an iPod on my wrist again — a little voice-activated streaming music player, in fact. The upgraded …

Apple is planning to release WatchOS 4.1 at the end of the month. The update will be big: not only will it add music streaming over cellular and Wi-Fi via Apple Music and iCloud Music libraries and a new streaming Radio app, but it adds some fixes to address Wi-Fi and cellular issues acknowledged by Apple. I’ve been using a …

Apple’s iPhone lineup has a different twist this year: the biggest flagship is arriving late, and it’s still a device we have lots of questions about. The iPhone X is available for preorder October 27 and will begin shipping on November 3. Should you take the plunge? Here are this year’s arguments for and against. Why you should wait: The …

As predicted, the upcoming iPhone X looks like it might be in limited supply. A morning report from KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (via 9to5Mac) now says that there will be somewhere between 2-3 million iPhone X models available at launch in two weeks. Previous reports suggested shortages based on supplies of components related to the new front-facing TrueDepth camera …

Facebook Messenger can make payments to friends, and has already worked with Paypal. But it can now make payments to people using Paypal using peer-to-peer, too (in the US, for now). The service is live on iOS, and is coming to Android soon. The service connects its 2.5 million customers in the US to make the same payments to friends …

This year, like many smartwatch makers, Samsung’s focusing on fitness. Its latest sport earbuds and smartwatch, the Gear Icon X 2018 and Gear Sport, are arriving later this month: Oct. 27, with preorders starting tomorrow, Oct. 13. They’ll cost $200 and $300, respectively in the US. (International prices and release dates weren’t provided by Samsung, but we’ll add them when …

The Oculus Rift, Facebook’s PC-based VR system, has great controllers but it lacks the stand-up camera sensors it needs to work in a full room like a holodeck, like its rival the HTC Vive. That sounds like it’s changing next year with a “Santa Cruz” Rift model that will leave those sensors behind. It was announced in a keynote Wednesday at the Oculus …

Good news for budget VR shoppers: it’s a good year for discounts. Facebook and Oculus announced that the Rift and Touch, Oculus’ VR hardware for PCs that launched last year, is keeping its summer discount price of $399. That’s roughly half what Rift and Touch used to cost. Hopefully you didn’t buy it when it was more expensive. As we …

Back in 2013, I was boarding a New Jersey Transit train with a piece of metal and plastic on my head. Google Glass ended up being a symbol of many things — the technology industry’s cavalier invasions of privacy, or its increasing elitism — but its promise of a cyborg future didn’t ever really arrive.  More from Google’s event Google …

The Apple Watch Series 3 has had problems connecting to LTE networks when around certain recognized public Wi-Fi spots, but a new software update could correct the issues. The new Apple Watch WatchOS 4.0.1 firmware, available now, promises it “fixes issues that in rare cases were causing Apple Watch to join unauthenticated (captive) Wi-Fi networks, such as those found in …